Prelude and Fugue in G-sharp Minor

Hope you find this acceptable! Doesn't follow the direct fifths and octaves rule but we're in an age where it should be fine.

I won't way anything about parallels, you know I don't care very much, whenever the richness of sound is present  in the piece.

The prelude is fantastic. The melody is not very complex but beautiful. But the most interesting is, for me, the rhythmic feeling in the left hand. I think chosing the harpsichord is an extra point in this case.

Fugue. Complex subject this time. It's a great fugue. Only two comments: a) the part with the pedal no from m. 72 is a bit long. b) in some parts there is a trend of going in parallel motion.

Very nice work.

1 hour ago, Luis Hernández said:

in some parts there is a trend of going in parallel motion.

Hey thanks! The parallel motion thing is most noticeable in the codetta and second episodes, but I don't think any of them are illegal in the Baroque sense. I understand it makes those bits sound a little less flowing, but I kind of like the contrast. 

I think this is very nice! I really like both the prelude and fugue! 🙂

You are fairly baroque in melody and harmony, some unusual moves though, and a unusual key if you wan to be "autentic" (but as you say, its a long time ago, why do everything by the book?) 🙂
Fuges (as it was, and is now) is a craft, back in the day the melody was not what made the piece, but how it was used and developed with the techniques (figures, motifs, sequences, cadenses, etc). That is why i would argue why should you not follow the rules of the craft? (the rules are offcourse not written in stone, all the great composers bended the rules in practical writing of music)

Is the fugue written for the Soprano, alto, and bass voice? at the beginning it looks that way, but it shift to alto, tenore and bass as we go. The suprise in bar 66 is very nice, but i think it was a bit anticlimax to go back to one voice, cut one is fine, but maybe not all of them in the middle of the fugue. But if you where to have the pause, you could use it to introduce a new countersubject or a second theme.

The organpoint is very nice, but the ending at 80 made it stop again 😛

Besides that, a pleasant prelude and fugue for the ear! Good counterpoint and nice theme, well done! 🙂

The prelude is beautiful.  I love the choice of harpsichord too.  The fugue is also quite beautiful and very well executed, I will certainly be taking note when I come to write my fugue.

Regards Mark